**On Today’s Episode Of The Cryptoverse:**
In today’s news segment I bring you a chat I had on Tuesday with Josh Scigala, CEO of Vaultoro, the one of a kind online exchange that I recommend on the show regularly. Vaultoro allows you to trade back and forth between gold and Bitcoin.
I asked Josh about recent events in the crypto world as well as the challenges of finding good developers as he grows his business.
The news segment starts at 7:52

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+The Cryptoverse Which is there an exchanger for you to buy gold from bitcoin? like a crypto that is backed up with gold, I know that there is one that you have talk about but I don't remember the name of it, in that case is there any with silver? I'm interested in silver and taking into account that I can't buy direct silver from where I'm from that would be handy if I can exchange it for some future silver.

Here is one reason why I think Bitcoin Unlimited is a better way forward. It is always best way forward to have collective decision making in anything, meaning democratic decision making of all parties involved in whatever project or business they are involved in. In this case it is Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin Core team propose 1 way forward, namely SegWit, which is not collective decision making on HOW to go forward. The only collective decision making is if people involved chose to accept or deny their proposal, the how is decided by their team of coders, which is centralised decision making on HOW to go forward.

The Bitcoin Unlimited team are proposing multiple options (different block size) that all people involved can decide on, collectively, which one to adopt and go forward with it. This is what democratic way of decision making means. Their team says, to allow all people involved to chose what is best block size, and the majority will decide which one to use.

So in short, SegWit only gives people choice to vote if to accept their proposal or not, which is same as in nation's election where the shadow government presents to the people candidates, which look like options making people think they are the ones choosing, but all of the candidates are picked by the shadow government, and doesn't matter which one people elect, the shadow government makes sure they have one of their people on top.

Bitcoin unlimited on the other hand says, here… you, the people propose what you want, and we all collectively, will decide in democratic way (with the majority), which way is best.

Hi Chris and the rest of the cryptoverse. I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this but……..

Every morning during the intro Chris discusses the top/bottom performers in the crypto currency market which I love. Dash is performing well but see a huge scary flaw in the way Dash has split up its infrastructure both technically and morally and I am struggling to find answers so thought I would turn to this community for assistance.

Technical Concerns

I work in the IT industry for a large service provider in the USA where DDoS attacks are a daily major issue for not only our clients but infrastructure as a whole. My major concern here is that I believe (and this may be out of ignorance) that identifying DASH Master Nodes would not be that difficult and executing a DDOS attack against those nodes would cripple the entire DASH network causing their major benefit of instant confirmations to become obsolete.

Moral Concerns (again this may be born out of ignorance, so please excuse me if so)

To hold a master node you must own 1000 Dash. Is that not just replication of the "Rich get Richer" model that crypto currencies are trying to defeat. Also, my comments above about the DDoS leave the master nodes open to blackmail. We see so many ransom letters from DDoS attackers saying Pay x bitcoin or you will go off line. Now I understand that the Master nodes get to decide what changes are put into place, there is nothing stopping an attacker threatening x action based on a change they want added to the protocol.

My last concern is there is no doubt in my mind that the NSA must have Master Nodes on the network and if that is true well…………

Any way, I am hoping someone will school me and put me back in my box, if not then I am very concerned about buying into DASH.

Chris, you did an interview on The Survival Podcast recently. On today's episode of that podcast there was a hardware wallet question related to your interview. I posted a comment to the question but I am sure they would like to read your response.

21:52 the Bitcoin blockchain has real value – the proof of work algorythm. it has a calcuable value in expended electricity, and due to the age and hashpower behind bitcoin it leaves the altcoins in the dust

i believe btc price is stalling because people are scared that Bugs Unlimited might be implemented. Belief is Unlimited in the developers of Bitcoin Ver-coin (BV)…and misplaced…they are just amatures – they're 2 versions behind core!